For Beaver Dam native Ren Nickel, the rise of large scale AI data centers across the country hits close to home.
The University of Wisconsin senior said one of his old grade school teachers lives about a mile from the new data center there, which has taken over her property and impacted local waterways.
“She had quite a few acres of land, and it just destroyed it,” Nickel said. “She had a creek, and it’s completely dried up.”…